From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932393Ab1GOEyr (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:54:47 -0400 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.160]:30853 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932118Ab1GOEyq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:54:46 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :IGUXYVOIf/Z0yAghYbpIhzghmj8icP68r1arC3zTx2B9G7/X5zri/u5Y1+fsZ6BmRA== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Message-ID: <4E1FC808.4070802@die-jansens.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:54:32 +0200 From: Arne Jansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, joe@perches.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, kongjianjun@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFC]Question about codes comments References: <20110715034745.GA3771@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110715034745.GA3771@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15.07.2011 05:47, Harry Wei wrote: > Hi all, > When i read the kernel codes, i always find the code comments with > /* XXX ..... */. The 'XXX' turns to be colourful. It is with croci. > I don't know the meaning of 'XXX'? Can anyone tell me? It is just a marker that there's still some work to do, like FIXME, TODO, and HERE. Normally you set this marker to be able to find all those places easily by a simple search. The marker should at least be accompanied by an explanatory text. > > Thanks in advance > Harry Wei > --